📚 Adze, noun. 🔉 /adz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A tool similar to an axe, with an arched blade at right angles to the handle, used for cutting or shaping large pieces of wood. ❗️ Examples: 1. Tools consist now of bone, wood and stone, made up as an adze, knife blade, borer, arrow or spearhead. 2. Specialized war weapons may be lacking - after all, war can be fought with such ordinary tools as adzes or hunting spears. 3. A man sat near his house using an adze to sculpt a handle for his bill-hook. 4. There, slowly but surely, a keel took shape as the axes and adzes flew and the wood chips piled up below. 5. Hand tools like the axe and the adze have thousands of years of history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic